The radical part isn't the idea of following joy—it's the word "every." Rumi isn't suggesting you chase your most obvious passion or wait for perfect timing; he's advocating for a kind of spiritual attentiveness, where small enthusiasms matter as much as grand ones. That afternoon conversation that suddenly makes you come alive, the stranger's question that ignites your curiosity, the half-formed project that won't leave you alone—these deserve the same weight as your life's supposed "purpose." A software engineer I know turned down a promotion to spend six months teaching kids to code, not because it made financial sense, but because it was the call that actually excited her spirit, and that permission to trust the smaller excitements eventually led her somewhere far more meaningful than the expected path would have.